love is better
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
-proverbs 15:17
i have found this verse to be sooo true. at times we've been blessed to share some really nice, more expensive meals, but the enjoyment so quickly leaves when the people you're eating with seem to only strife. truly it is so much nicer to just eat together and enjoy one another and a homecooked meal than to sit amongst people who strife. yes, i realize all people strife, but when there seems to be no desire to show love to one another, its just not a nice environment. there are many "good" reasons why you could be upset with somebody, but as our pastor once asked the congregation what the Bible says in these following situations:
how you should interact with a fellow believer?
- love one another, submit to one another, esteem others higher than yourself.
"but they aren't a believer!"
okay, let's be more general, how should you deal with your neighbor?
- love your neighbor as yourself. (mark 12:31)
"but, you don't understand, they are more like an enemy than my neighbor!"
well then, how are we instructed to deal with our enemies?
- love your enemies and do good to them which hate you. (luke 6:27)
end of story. love. i know it can be hard, but it's what's commanded. Jesus spoke about loving those who are easy to love and how basically anybody can do that, even those who don't know God, but true love is loving those who are hard to love, those who may not "deserve" the love. being gracious, giving them what they don't deserve > loving somebody who actually deserves punishment. it is in situations like this we learn to be like Christ; who is gracious, merciful, and unconditionally loving. it's what we all want. we would give everything to obtain it. there's no question, love is better.
with love,
mrs. s
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